A review is provided of various approaches that have been adopted recently to assess the
fatigue of ships and offshore structures. The relevant fatigue loading is reviewed first …

This study pays attention to the ductile fracture of X80 pipeline steel using both experimental
and numerical approaches. First, nineteen experimental cases are tested, consisting of the …

The pipeline is prone to collapse under the combined external pressure and multiple
corrosion defects. Experiments of the full-scale pipelines with longitudinally …

The subsea pipeline is prone to corrosion due to the combined influence of a complex
environment and internal fluid. The corrosion defect results in the local thinning of the wall …

The study aims to assess the fatigue reliability of single-sided girth welds in offshore
pipelines and risers based on crack propagation analyses accounting for Non-destructive …

Affected by a complex environment, corrosion is a common defect in steel pipelines.
Moreover, steel pipelines are subjected to large axial forces during their installation and …

This study employs the microshear test method to examine the local mechanical properties
of narrow-gap welded joints, revealing the mechanical inhomogeneity by evaluating the …

To enable rapid fatigue assessment of welded joints containing misalignment, the
quantitative relationships between the acceptance level of misalignment and the fatigue …

An approach is presented, based on the weight function method to calculate the stress
intensity factors of semielliptical surface cracks originating from the notch root of welded …

In this study, fatigue assessment of cracked pipes with weld misalignment is carried out by
using fracture mechanics approach. Two types of weld misalignment, viz., centreline offset …